Straight answers to the questions that come up before you hire someone, with every figure sourced and dated. All of it free, none of it behind an email wall.
An employee costs more than their wage. An electrician on the $32.19 award rate costs about $73,535 a year once superannuation, leave loading and workers compensation are counted, against a wage of $63,607. These guides work the real figure out line by line, with every source named.
An electrician on a $32.19 award rate costs about $73,535 a year, not the $63,607 the hourly rate suggests. Superannuation, leave loading, workers compensation and payroll tax, worked line by line with the sources named.
Nobody invoices you for an empty seat, so it never appears in the accounts. The conservative arithmetic, what it deliberately leaves out, and why the multiplier figures you see elsewhere are worth treating carefully.
SEEK's own research puts wrong hires at $7.3 billion a year across Australian SMEs, up to $16,000 each. Where that money goes, and why the multipliers you find elsewhere deserve more scepticism than they get.
Doing it yourself is cheaper in cash and dearer in time and risk. The hours counted honestly, the empty seat priced in, and the times hiring internally is plainly the right call.
Your rate, your state, permanent or casual. Adds the on-costs and shows the real hourly and annual figure against the headline rate.
Put in the day rate and how long the seat has been open. Gives you a figure you can put in front of whoever signs off the hire.
The award sets the legal minimum. The market sets what people actually accept, and the two are rarely the same number. These pages carry both for seventeen roles: the award code and classification, the legal floor, and the band employers are really paying, each figure sourced and dated.
Seventeen roles, each with its award code, classification, legal minimum and the band the market is actually paying. Sourced and dated.
The whole dataset on one page, including day rate equivalents, free to cite.
Pick the role, get the likely modern award with its code and a link to the official pay guide. Coverage depends on actual duties, so it points you at the source rather than guessing for you.
Figures from the ABS, Fair Work and Jobs and Skills Australia, each with its release date and check date. Free to quote with a link.
Most roles that will not fill are not advertising problems. They are rate problems, licence problems, or a brief that rules out the people who can actually do the work. These pages cover the four fixable reasons, the order to fix them in, and how to tell when advertising is the wrong tool entirely.
The four fixable reasons, the order to fix them in, and how to tell when advertising is the wrong tool entirely rather than a badly written one.
The three checks every candidate clears before their name reaches you, and where reference checks actually sit.
What the role costs to employ, the current market band, the licences that gate it, and why advertising often does not fill it.
Award minimums are national. Employer on-costs and licensing are not.
Award floor, classification and market band for each of the seventeen roles we fill.
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